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Originally Posted by logan5
We are past the stage of predictions.
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This very thread makes an alarmist and absurd prediction....
And it's just another in a long line of alarmist hyperbolic predictions that have turned out to be completely false. Remember these?
In the 70s climate change alarmists predicted a new ice age and worldwide starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global...960s_and_1970s
Back in 1989 the UN Environment Programme warned of “coastal flooding and crop failures” that “would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees" by the year 2000. 17 years later and still hasn't happened...
A 2005 UNEP prediction claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be fleeing the coastal areas of the Pacific and Caribbean. Still hasn't happened.
15 years ago the IPCC predicted an end to snow storms. Still hasn't come true.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/w...ex.php?idp=569
As jlousa said, this is probably the most politicized issue of our times. In 25 or 30 years we'll be looking back and it will all seem extremely foolish.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favor of renewable and clean power, in favor of reducing our environmental footprint, of protecting forests and wetlands, and I think recycling and reducing waste is important. I just don't subscribe to the apocalyptic nonsense peddle by the climate change lobby.
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